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1st Edition

Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

Edited By Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer Copyright 2023
272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations. The volume provides the first dataset of battlefield coalitions, uses primary sources to understand how non-state actors of varying types form such groupings, reports... Read more

Part I: Introducing Battlefield Coalitions

1. Battlefield Coalitions: Preparation, Organisation, Execution

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Ryan Grauer

2. A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Ryan Grauer

Part II: Preparation 

3. Exercising Escalation: Do Multinational Military Exercises Provoke Interstate Security Crises?

Kathryn M.G. Boehlefeld and Kelly A. Grieco

4. When the Coalition Determines the Mission: NATO’s Detour in Libya

Stéfanie von Hlatky and Thomas Juneau 

Part III: Organisation

5. Battlefield Coalitions as International Institutions: A Conceptual Framework

Casey Mahoney

6. Command and Military Effectiveness in Rebel and Hybrid Battlefield Coalitions

Dan Reiter 

7. Learning from Losing: How Defeat Shapes Coalition Dynamics in Wartime

Sara Bjerg Moller 

Part IV: Execution           

8. Regime Type, War Aims, and Coalition Member Effort in Combat

Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer, and Alastair Smith

9. Why Rebels Rely on Terrorists: The Persistence of the Taliban--al-Qaeda Battlefield Coalition in Afghanistan

Barbara Elias 

10. Coalitions and Wartime Diplomacy: Speaking with One Voice

Eric Min

Part V: Looking Ahead 

11. Next Steps in the Study of Battlefield Coalitions

Alex Weisiger

Biography

Rosella Cappella Zielinski is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University, USA. She is the author of How States Pay for Wars (2016).

Ryan Grauer is an Associate Professor of International Affairs, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Commanding Military Power (2016).

'Many wars are fought by alliances and coalitions, yet we have very little systematic study of how such groupings fight together on the battlefield. Cappella Zielinski and Grauer amass a terrific team of analysts to ask and answer important questions about how wartime cooperation works or fails on the ground.'

Stephen Saideman, Carleton University, Canada

'Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

is an impressive effort to consider the political and operational challenges of an increasingly common aspect of war-fighting. This theoretically and empirically rich collection of studies improves our understanding of modern warfare and sets an agenda for future research.'

Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University, USA

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